An in depth look and review of the Travel Blog Success Course and what you need in order to have a successful adventure travel blog.
How You Can Live a Better Story Today
All of us enjoy reading a good story, but what if, like a writer putting pen to paper, you could begin crafting the life you are living into a better story? A review of Don Miller’s book A Million MIles in a Thousand Years.
Finding Your Quest and Adventure – The Happiness of Pursuit
The importance of finding your quest and bringing adventure into your life — a review of the book the Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau.
Getting Caught Up By Gear Lust – Outdoor Retailer Show
Every year a new wave of quality outdoor products enters the market. How do you deal with gear lust, consumerism, and shiny new things? My thoughts following this year’s Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City.
Why Doing Hard Things Matters: Find Your Comfort Zone and Go Beyond
You can go through life always taking the easy path, but doing the hard things really does matter. The things that push our boundaries are what makes us grow and learn.
The 10 Best Mountaineering Books of All-Time
Alpinism and mountaineering have a great literary tradition among the adventure genre. At its core mountaineering is a simple but profound adventure, often with significant peril. But a great adventure does not necessarily make a great book, at least not without a great story teller. In this guest post from Andrew Szalay of the Suburban Mountaineer, he takes a look at the pinnacle of the climbing genre for this list of the top 10 Must Reads.
How to Quadruple Mailing List Subscribers For Your Adventure Blog
A detailed how-to for my fellow travel and adventure bloggers about how I was able to dramatically increase my optin and sign up rates for my newsletter. Check out how many monthly subscribers I was getting before I made these two key changes to my Wordpress backbone to triple and quadruple my sign ups.
A Life of Security and the Risk of the Mountains
A friend of mine and guide died in the recent tragedy on Mount Rainier. With his death I reflect on what the risks of mountaineering and climbing can teach us about living a full life. And how risk and reward compares to a life of security and conformity.